Welcome.
This site owes its beginnings in part to the desire to write stories with
the characters in the public domain from the golden-age of comics. As
there were several sites reprinting such comics online, it became increasingly
difficult to keep track, so for my own amusement, I started a list of
heroes listing powers, when and where they first appeared etc., drawing
from many sources both online and various books such as Steranko's 2 volume
set and Jeff Rovin's Superhero encyclopedia. Wasn't long before I realized
I had a resource far beyond anything elsewhere. I toyed with the idea
of trying to learn how to do web pages. Then Jess Nevins launched his
golden-age superheroes site. When he expressed no interest in doing a
companion one with the villains, I decided to fill that void.

Since then, the site
has expanded far beyond the original goal to concentrate on just the public
domain characters. I expanded my scope to include both heroes and villains
for MLJ (Archie) and Fawcett as I found excellent resources with comics
from there. When the writer of TERRA OBSCURA was looking for a Princess
Pantha story, I scanned and posted one here. Now there are two Pantha
stories on site and a fledgeling attempt at giving a reprint home for
one of my favorite characters, the Fighting Yank. Another friend was looking
for a place to store some of his commissions of members of the Invaders
trumping the JSA, so you'll see a few of those here.

As the site grew
in scope, maintaining it also grew complicated. I'm hoping this new design
will prove easier in the long run to highlight changes. One of the biggest
changes is no longer will you have to go through the various pages to
see the updates. Instead I will have one page listing new heroes and villain
profiles. As time passes, they will be deleted from that spot and moved
to the respective pages they permanently belong.

Hero-Goggles:HOT GIRL IN THE COMIC SHOP: A few links to places I
found of interest in the last few days such as a site with
a whole bunch of Old Time Radio shows of radio's premier air
ace Captain Midnight!

Hero-Goggles:Secret Secret Origin of Superman? Cash Gorman weighs
in on Chris Knowles' theory that Action Comics #1 is based
on a renaissance painting of Heracles and where superheroes
got their costumes. Also a couple of links to read more about
Fletcher Hanks and AC's upcoming Green Lama mini-series.

updated 12-03-07

Hero-Goggles:Secret Secret Origin of Batman: Think you know everything
about the origins of Batman? Here's a bit of history of the
character and some of the predecessors that lead up to him
and other links along the evolutionary chain to comic book
superheroes.